Hi Bernard

I’m an avid reader of your books and have had many, many hours of pleasure from them.

However, I hope you will not mind me pointing out an error in the grammar in one of the brief summaries.

I refer to ‘Gallows Thief’, in which the synopsis refers to …’thousands were hung’. This is incorrect and should read … ‘thousands were hanged’.

Pictures are ‘hung’ or you might be ‘hung over’, but the exception comes where hang means to put to death by hanging. The past tense and past participle of hang in this sense – and only in this sense – is hanged.

Hope you don’t mind my pointing this out as it is a common error.

Please keep writing.

Best wishes

Tim King